Osage

The Osage are a Native American people from Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, living on the Great Plains. The tribe moved west from Ohio and Mississippi after the 16th century due to wars with the Iroquois, and the tribe became the dominant tribe in the region during the 19th century, being feared by rival tribes. The Osage tribe sought to minimize contact with European settlers, and the tribe moved to the Indian Territory in the early 1800s. Under the 1808 Treaty of Fort Clark, the Osage ceded Missouri and Arkansas to the USA, and the tribe relocated to Kansas in 1825 and then to the Indian Territory after the American Civil War. The Osage had a population of 10,000 in 2012.